Pep Guardiola was told just minutes before addressing the media that Manchester City's audacious transfer coup to sign Cristiano Ronaldo had failed.
Ronaldo had decided to leave Juventus and City had pounced on an unexpected opportunity to sign one of football's iconic stars, and plug a gap in their squad.
But, as Guardiola was prepping to face reporters ahead of City's opening game of the Premier League season against Arsenal, director of football, Txiki Begiristain, dropped a bombshell.
Ronaldo was coming back to Manchester, but he wasn't heading for the Etihad. Instead, as the MEN reported at the time, Old Trafford was preparing for the return of one of their greatest. As reported by the Daily Star , six weeks of talks and intense
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